Golda Meir was born on 3 May 1898 in Kyiv. An Israeli politician, Meir was born in Kyiv, then in the Russian Empire, and moved with her family to Milwaukee in the United States as a child. A committed Zionist, she emigrated to Palestine in 1921, became active in the labour movement and was one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. She served as Israel's ambassador to the Soviet Union, as labour minister and as foreign minister before becoming prime minister in 1969, the country's first woman to hold the office. Her government faced the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, after which criticism of the intelligence failures led her to resign in 1974.
Before and after
- 10 February 1898Birth of Bertolt Brecht
- 5 March 1898Birth of Zhou Enlai
- 25 April 1898Birth of Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych
- from 25 April 1898 to 11 August 1898Spanish–American War
- 3 May 1898Birth of Golda Meir
- 5 June 1898Birth of Federico García Lorca
- 17 June 1898Birth of M. C. Escher
- 22 June 1898Birth of Erich Maria Remarque
- from 1 July 1898 to 2 June 1899Siege of Baler
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